How to choose a leader: Machiavelli's advice to citizens
"One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders...ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's wri...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolò Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders...ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries. Drawing on the full range of the Florentine's writings, acclaimed Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli gathers and interprets Machiavelli's timeless wisdom about choosing leaders. The brief and engaging result is a new kind of Prince...one addressed to citizens rather than rulers and designed to make you a better voter. Demolishing popular misconceptions that Machiavelli is a cynical realist, the book shows that he believes republics can't survive, let alone thrive, without leaders who are virtuous as well as effective. Among much other valuable advice, Machiavelli says that voters should pick leaders who put the common good above narrower interests and who make fighting corruption a priority, and he explains why the best way to recognize true leaders is to carefully examine their past actions and words. On display throughout are the special insights that Machiavelli gained from long, direct knowledge of real political life, the study of history, and reflection on the great political thinkers of antiquity. Recognizing the difference between great and mediocre political leaders is difficult but not at all impossible...with Machiavelli's help. So do your country a favor. Read this book, then vote like Machiavelli would"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
Introduction: Why Ask JVLachiavelli? ) ix
Citizens ought to keep their hands on the republic
and choose the lesser evil* | i
Judge bp the hands, not bp the epes j 6
It is the common good which makes
republics great* | 12
Whoever desires constant success must change his
conduct with the times | 17
How bp the delusions of seeming good the people
are often misled to desire their own ruin; and how
thep are frequentlp influenced bp great hopes and
brave promisesV | 22
“Men almost alwaps follow the beaten track of others,
and proceed in their actions bp imitation ” | 2,6
Great men and powerful republics preserve an equal
dignitp and courage in prosperity and adversitp | 33
VIII “And although these men were rare and wonderful,
they were nevertheless but men, and the
opportunities which they had were far less favorable
than the present; nor were their undertakings more
just or more easy than this; neither was God more a
friend of them than of you*” j 37
IX “For it is the duty of any good man to teach others
that good which the malignity of the times and of
fortune has prevented his doing himself; so that
amongst the many capable ones whom he has
instructed, someone perhaps, more favored by
Heaven, may perform it* | 42,
X “It is very difficult, indeed almost impossible to
maintain liberty in a republic that has become
corrupt or to establish it there anew | 46
XI “Poverty never was allowed to stand in the way of
the achievement of any rank or honor and virtue
and merit were sought for under whatever roof
they dwelt; it was this system that made riches
naturally less desirable | 52,
XII “In well-regulated republics the state ought to be
rich and the citizens poor* | 56
VI
CONTENTS
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
Prolonged commands brought Rome to
servitude«” | 63
I love my country more than my soul” | 67
For where the very safety of the country
depends upon the resolution to be taken, no
considerations of justice or injustice, humanity
or cruelty nor of glory or of shame, should
be allowed to prevail« But putting all other
considerations aside, the only question should
be,‘what course will save the life and liberty of
the country? ” | 73
The authority of the dictatorship has always
proved beneficial to Rome, and never injurious;
it is the authority which men usurp, and not that
which is given them by the free suffrages of
their fellow-citizens, that is dangerous to civil
liberty” | 80
I say that I have never practiced war as my
profession, because my profession is to govern my
subjects and to defend them, and, in order to be
able to defend them, to love peace and to know
how to make war«” | 85
CONTENTS | vii
XVIII
XIX
XX
An excellent general is usually an orator because,
unless he knows how to speak to the whole
army, he will have difficulty in doing anything
good/ j 89
A prince becomes esteemed when he shows
himself either a true friend or a real enemy/ | 97
To insure a long existence to religious sects or
republics, it is necessary frequently to bring
them back to their original principles/ j 101
Notes | 107
Sources of the Quotations j 115
Note on the Texts | 117
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